Browsing by Author "Carlitz, Ruth"
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Environmental NGOs in Emerging Democracies: Obstacles to Effective Action
Bolkvadze, Ketevan; Carlitz, Ruth; Povitkina, Marina (2024-04)Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important role in environmental governance. However, ENGO activity does not always lead to favorable outcomes. This paper highlights the ways in which neoliberal ... -
Environmental protection in authoritarian regimes: Investigating the role of pluralism.
Carlitz, Ruth; Povitkina, Marina (2020-06)When and how do authoritarian states secure environmental protection? Answering thisquestion is critical given that over half of the world’s population currently live in suchregimes. Furthermore, the ... -
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?
Mechkova, Valeriya; Carlitz, Ruth (2019)The past two decades have seen dramatic increases in women occupying positions of political power. Such developments have been welcomed as a means of achieving better outcomes for women in their everyday lives. We interrogate ... -
Transparency and the Quality of Local Public Service Provision: Street-Level Discretion in Education, Health and Infrastructure.
Bauhr, Monika; Carlitz, Ruth (2019-05)Transparency has been widely promoted as a tool for improving public service delivery; however, empirical evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that the effects of transparency on service provision are ... -
Who gains access to public services? Social Bargaining, Corruption and Street-level Service Provision
Bauhr, Monika; Carlitz, Ruth; Kovacikova, Lucia (2023-02)Despite massive global investments in public services, sizeable discrepancies remain in terms of people’s needs being met once they are in contact with service providers — what we term effective access. This study investigates ...